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Thirty-five years ago, on June 12, 1970, Pittsburgh Pirate and future Texas Rangers pitcher Dock Ellis found himself in the Los Angeles home of a childhood friend named Al...
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Look out, Dallas! Ryan Adams is on his way to town. The troubled troubadour is slated to play Gypsy Tea Room on June 17, and early reports of his current tour say his antics...
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Why should we pay for home cooking? Hell, it's the same stuff Mom whipped up free of charge for decades. It's always a bit perturbing to see people shell out good money for...
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DC Comics has kept its superheroes locked in a fortress of solitude for almost a decade, forcing the likes of Superman and Batman to warm the bench while longtime rival Marvel...
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The title Long Dark Road works on so many levels, it almost feels like a cliché. Seven years ago this month, three white men in East Texas chained James Byrd Jr., a...
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Mel Brooks' The Producers is the gift that keeps on giving. First there's the original 1968 film, a nearly perfect 88 minutes of comedy. Its two leads, Zero Mostel, as slimy...
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Mostly Air Self-defense training for U.S. airline flight attendants is lax, despite 9-11
Our first-class galley flight attendant and our purser have been stabbed. And we...
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About a year ago, a press release caught my attention. "Bob Schneider performs an intimate concert at Bend yoga studio." I had one question: Are you serious? The thought of...
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OK, so we succumbed to Danica-mania. Sue us.
Or rather, sue our editor. You wouldn't get much from the Burning Question crew, anyway--'cept a beat-up Le Car and our treasured...
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For all their exceptionality, there is also a numbing sameness to the movies of Hayao Miyazaki, the revered animator who has bewitched Japanese audiences since the late 1970s...
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Thursday, June 16
People say the moral of Pinocchio is that honesty is always the best policy. We disagree. How about: Never look a gift horse in the mouth. Hey, Pinocchio,...
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Betrayal Harold Pinter's drama about the ins and outs of one middle-aged London couple's adulterous affair takes a zig-zaggy route to storytelling. Scenes jump back and...
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Two questions leaped to our mind when we saw the billboard for Amdecon along Interstate 35 near Oak Cliff, featuring a chalk outline of a dead body and offering cleanup for...
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My first week on the job, I received a cold call from an aspiring gospel singer in Irving named Patrick Bradshaw. I was new; I picked up the phone.
"Why hello, Mizz Hepola."...
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I could never be David Sedaris' sister. It's not because he would tell embarrassing anecdotes about me in his books--look in any of them and there is an abundance of familial...
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There's an amazing amount of possibility in one letter. Change the "o" in Goss, as in Goss Gallery, to an "a" and you have a slightly altered form of flatulence--"gass." Drop...
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This should be good. The city of Dallas is about to flip Austin the bird in a major way.
Dallas got whipped in the recent session of the Texas Legislature. The House and...
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Phone rings at Caitlin Cary's, and it's Ryan Adams, her bandmate from '90s country revivalists Whiskeytown. He starts gushing about his new album, Cold Roses: "It's like the...
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Get to the roots
6/18
Why celebrate your roots only one month out of a year? And by roots, I mean everyone's roots. Yes, even that guy behind you who always honks the...
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David LaChapelle David LaChapelle imbues his photographs with a sense of good taste based on culture's lowest common denominator. Theirs is a beauty based on kitsch run...
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